Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Los Dones de Dios

June1, 2015

Hola hola hola!!! :)

Playing Soccer

Okay, so quick eye update. Last week I had to go to a member’s
house and get it disinfected because well, it was a smidge infected jaja. But
now it’s all good! Last Tuesday and Wednesday it was super black! It was the
coolest thing ever! :) But now, it’s a lot better, not quite as bruised at all,
oh well. It’s cool. Oh and the cut is just fine. I disinfect it twice a day
just to be sure. But yeah, it’s just fine. And my glasses continue to be broken,
but they’re not too bad. They work just fine so I’m just going to truck along
with what I got until the end of my mission. I mean, why spend money when there’s
really no need?

Soccer War Wounds! Lovely Black Eye!

Okay, what else? Well, we had to stay home Monday and
Tuesday because we were sick, but I think you already knew that so.....moving
on. Ummmmm.......Oh yeah, Nestor was confirmed!!!!! :) Another door open! It
was really great! His mom went to church yesterday and has a baptismal date for
the 13th! Let’s pray she arrives to it! She did tell my companion when we were
on divisions that she wanted to be apart of everything and support her son
more. So that is fantastic news. So I do believe that she and her other son
will be getting baptized soon!! :) Miguel, sadly, was not able to go to church
this last Sunday. He had to take care of his 12 year old son. I guess he couldn’t
leave him for like 20 minutes. I’m not going to write too much about that,
because it just doesn’t make sense to me. Anyways, just a little opposition. We’ll
get everything back on track.

Umm.....I’m super sorry, but I’m pretty sure this week was
just like really weird and I can’t really explain everything in an email so it’s
going to turn out to be like a really boring email. Sorry about that!! :/

Random comment: It seems like every Liahona article and
church lesson/talk I read or hear is about Eternal Marriage. Like what the
heck? A sign? Probably not jaja.

We did divisions last week. I was with an Hermana that was
with Hermana Yancey in the MTC. (Mi hija has 5 months in the mission already,
can you believe that?? I can’t!) Anyways, being with her reminded me a lot of
Hermana Yancey! The divisions were very successful actually. Like super super
great! Anyways, I learned a lot from her, Hermana Chelson. She shared a quote
with me about the gifts we are given from God. That changed my life. Because
there are SOOOOO many gifts God has given us, or so many that we have the
opportunity to develop. And I think that sometimes I just don’t realize how
many there are. When I read about a few of them, I realized just how imperfect
and weak I am and how I have a great need to develop more gifts of God. I also
realized I have some gifts that I didn’t recognize before. Because I think a
lot of times we see gifts and talents as things like playing an instrument, or
a sport, singing, dancing, etc. But I’ve realized on the mission that those are
such a small part of the talents God has blessed us with. In my mission I have
come to know my weaknesses and my strengths and talents so much more. Ones that
I never new exsisted. But yeah, I’m just super excited to make goals and focus
on developing these new gifts I’ve read about. I think it is something that
will help me a lot.

Well, that’s really all I got for this week. I’m really
sorry it’s such a boring email. It’s literally probably the most boring email I’ve
written in my mission. Well I guess it had to happy sooner or later. I’ll try
to whip something up really exciting this week. Anyways, I hope you all know
just how much I love you! Cuídense mucho! Les amo un monton!! :) Remember, when
we love the way the Savior does, miracles happen. And of course, Stay Anxiously
Engaged!! :)

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Argentina Buenos Aires North Mission

Adventures in Argentina

My name is Hannah Van Wagoner and I have been called to serve in the Argentina Buenos Aires North mission. This is where all my adventures in Argentina will be tracked as I am "anxiously engaged" in spreading the news of this beautiful Gospel!